RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

RELIGION  AND  REALIZATION

 MARCH --1882     

 Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

 (Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

                                                                                   

175)       “A  man  endowed  with  God’s  goodness  shall

                never take  money  from  others  by  flattery”.

 This is the marked distinction of a man endowed with goodness given by God.

Thakur used to say about himself, “I do not take any money from others”.                           

176)      “The  man  who  out  of  devotion  has  got  the  third  and lowest  principle

               (Tamas) wakened  up  for  God  has  got  a  burning  faith”.

 There are three principles of devotion in man . They are called---

(1)    Sattvik Bhakti .

(2)    Rajasik  Bhakti  and

(3)    Tamasik  Bhakti

Sattivik  Bhakti is the first principle of devotion of goodness and sanctity .

Rajasik Bhakti is the second principle devotion .

Tamasik Bhakti is the third principle of devotion without any rational base.

Has got the third and lowest principle wakened up—means to get a strong yearning for God but it has no rationalistic base.

Faith is God’s mercy.

Burning faith gets, all on a sudden, God’s light kindled in the body . A devotee of this type gets God’s light all on a sudden. “A light flares up in a room kept in darkness for a thousand years”.

177)            “A  devotee  of  the  third  principle  wishes  to

                     get  God  as  if  per  force”.

 It is a deep yearning for God and it comes out of the pang of separation. The devotee wants to get God and to be transformed into God all on a sudden. In yoga this pang indicates that God is emanating from the body.

178)               “A  devotee  of  the  third  principle  is  like  a 

                        robber  who  plunders  wealth”.

 This is to pick up a diamond in the street or to get and see God in the seventh plane . The life-power is collected and seen in the cerebrum leaving no explanation .

179)              “I  am  a  son  to  God”.

 The idea runs that God is Father or Mother and man is His or Her son.

It is called a devotion of Rajaguna. It is yogic term. It is manifested all over the body. Every part of the body becomes deeply flushy like red vermilion and the blood courses its way towards the upper part of the body.

180)             “If  a  man  can  divert  the  third  principle  within

                      himself  then  he  can  get  the  grace  of  God”.

 The life-power in a man is coursing its way in the outer world. It is to be withdrawn, collected, placed within the body and turned towards the seventh plane .

Yes, let there be desire in man, but that should be directed to see God. Yes, there might be temptation and let it be temptation of getting God within the body. Yes a man might have anger and let him be angry with God for not giving His grace to him. Yes, there might be forgetfulness and let one forget this world keeping the mind confined in his body. Yes, a man might be proud, and let him be proud as he has got God’s mercy. Yes, there will be vanity; Let the vanity be such as to have got God as one’s Lord.